Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks down as market falls

NEW DELHI: Fertilisers shares closed lower in the Tuesday's session.

Bohra Industries(up 4.76%) and Sikko Industries(up 1.45%) stood among the top gainers.

G S F C(down 5.15%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals(down 4.66%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers (down 4.65%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 3.44%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem(down 3.26%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(down 3.14%), Agro Phos(down 3.12%), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(down 2.49%), ZUARIAGRO(down 2.41%) and Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 2.29%) were among the top losers of the day.

The NSE Nifty50 index ended 58.3 points down at 18418.75, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 49.54 points at 61716.05.

Tech Mahindra(up 4.02%), Larsen & Toubro(up 3.22%), Bajaj Finserv(up 2.13%), Infosys(up 1.67%), Kotak Mahindra Bank(up 1.18%), HDFC Bank(up 1.1%), Reliance Industries(up 0.9%), HCL Technologies(up 0.88%), Mahindra & Mahindra(up 0.72%) and HDFC(up 0.41%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, ITC(down 6.32%), Tata Motors(down 5.44%), Eicher Motors(down 4.34%), Hindustan Unilever(down 4.04%), Titan Company Ltd(down 4.01%), JSW Steel(down 3.39%), Tata Steel(down 3.13%), UltraTech Cement(down 3.1%), Divis Laboratories(down 2.83%) and Power Grid Corporation of India(down 2.53%) closed in the red.